Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-09-24
CARE OF THE STOMACH.
An old New Yorker Gives Some Advice
 in Regard to its Treatment.

An old New Yorker Gives Some Advice
 fin Regard to its Treatment.
 An old New Yorker, who was brought up in hotels and restaurants, and knows all about eating, gave some points to reporter the other day about the way for a man to make friends with his stomach. ''There are two big mistakes that almost all persons make" said he. 'sOne is that they don't eat the right things and the other is that what they do eat they don't eat right. Dyspepsia and indigestion are killing more people than rum ten times over. Why delirium tremens is joy com pared with bad digestion. When man has the tremens he's happy sometimes, because he forgets himself, but when he's got dyspepsia his stomach is always with him, and he's always conscious of it. He can't sleep. His food doesn t taste right. Boils break out over him. He's morbid. All his friends seem to have deserted him, and some day he goes off and blows his brains out, and the public and news papers say he had business troubles. Business troubles! Why, what does man care for business troubles when his stomach's all right? If his stomach is AlAo LlCuN " III OO N1CdA, c111Q l1C II prosper. No glutton or dyspeptic can stand up alongside of man with sound stomach and clear head.
 "When you got up this morning what did you do? Went right off to breakfast and filled yourself, with your nose in the papers and your mind wandering over the earth. You don't know what you ate, or how much or how long it took For all the good it did you, you might as well have swallowed bacon and corn bread, or turkey and buckwheat cakes, or any other mixture that would take up space in your stomach. Then, while you ate, you gulped down ice water and cof- fee alternately, and when you got through you lit cigar and went down town, glad you had done part of the work of the day.
 That's not breakfasting. It's loading up your stomach, and it's worse for you than if you hadn't eaten anything. Then you have headache and feel bad, and grow fat, and wonder why it all is. It's because you don't pay as much attention | to your stomach as you do to your office boy. Your stomach takes its revenge by i making you wretched. To squelch it you pour lot of liquor into it and gulp some ice water on that, with cracker or pret- gel and bit of cheese. What sort of a mixture do you call that? Just imagine the cheese and rum and pretzel, and think that something inside of you has got to get away with that. If you want to drink, drink and enjoy your drink. Don't down it and fling things at it when you've got it down. Take glass of wine and enjoy it, but don't fling it into your stomach as you would your fist into some body's eye. Your stomach ought to be your friend, but if you go to pitching into it it'll show fight, and you may as well
 understand that it'll get the best of it.
 "When you get up in the morning take big drink of water. Your system wants f water first. An engine isn't first fired up and then water let into the boiler, Clean your teeer-, end let the water run a1 a111om the spigot while you re doing it. Sa@en drink pint of it. Use common
 hydrant water; no ice, no salt, no minera.
 water. Ordinary water is good enough
 for an ordinarily healthy man. KeeI
 away from drugs and pills and give you
 stomach . show.
 "If you're in hurry to read the papers
 read them before breakfast. When yo,
 sit down to the breakfast table be happy
 you're going to do something pleasant
 Breakfast isn't a penalty imposed on 70,
 or task to bc performed as soon ss pos sible, but a pleasant, enjoyable occasion Try and have somebody talk to you, ant talk yourself. Laugh. Start off witt
 fruit-sorne oranges, say. Then eat som
 fish and stale bread, or stale rolls or toast
 If you want anything more, eat som meat. Take your time to it all. I sta at the table for an hour, and cat all tn ] time. Don't eat much, but take you 6 time to it. If you haven't time, eat less The time you spend at breakfast will b 2 saved over end ove1. again during th ; day.
 D "1f you've been up the night befor t don't take cocktail or ice water. IT. ? some broth and some tripe if your ston
 ach's pretty far gone. When a man l. been off little his stomach is raw an d inhamed. He doesn't want to start rigl l. off with moro rum. Let him givo Il 6 stomach show. It'll pay him to. Cox It dle your stomach in the morning and it r. stand up for you at right. If you 2 e pitching into it first thing it will have e revenge.
 |, "Don't smoke ln the morning. Don l. drink in the morning. If you mu smoke and you must drink, wait uni 'i your stomach is through with breakfas 't Try this thing of starting of fair an d square. You can drink more and smol l. more in the evening, and it won't tell (
 it. A mans stomach is his friend, al
 if he'll only treat it kindly the first ha
 of the day it will show it's appreciate g and stick by him at night. ''-New Yol 1- Sun.